3D Render

I do not have a preference

Other

Before we get too carried away with the re-tagging mentioned in our Two New Main Tags Thread, is everyone who does renders okay with it being called "Digital Render"? I do realize some people may prefer "3D Render", but I opted for one that sounded a bit more broad to include various styles and forms of digital rendering. I know this could cause confusion with some people's reference to painted works as being "renders", but ultimately the difference is not in whether or not a subject is being rendered through a medium, but rather the fact that "Drawing & Painting" works have been created with the motions of drawing and painting in whatever medium is being used, while "Digital Render" works have been created in a modeling or sculpting studio to produce pieces rendered via digital medium only. I have no preference on whether we call it "Digital Render" or "3D Render", but having some quick feedback on this ASAP to make sure we don't waste time or manpower with tag updating would be awesome.

Gonna tag the general groups to bring eyes to this. Please give me opinions if you have them, anyone who has an opinion on it!

I'm still a bit confused about where the writing goes
I'll see when i try postin'

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I personally don't have a preference. The word "render" says what we need and what a viewer needs. The word "digital" could confuse some who are used to the word applied to "digital art," or hand drawn art made with a computer instead of a pencil, pen, or brush. But that's a maybe.

LOL, I hope that people do go for the Digital Render as I have redone all my photos .... if the vote goes the other way I will leave it to people who voted for 3d Renders to redo all my galleries... and I am prolific.

UPDATE: As of this time, we will be continuing with the "Digital Renders" tag as is for the main tag for such pieces. You are welcome to tag any variants you prefer, such as "digitalrenders", "3D Renders", "3DArt", or anything else you can think of, but the tag displayed as "Digital Renders" will remain as-is on the gallery quick links menu, and it will be our official tag for such work. Thank you to everyone who participated and provided your opinions. It has been much appreciated and very useful to get insight into the matter!

I don't know what "digital render" means. Is that supposed to include non-manually [but still rendered somehow] art that does not use a 3d program?

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I was just thinking the usual programs like DAZ and Poser but also sculpting programs like Zbrush, if that makes sense? The tag pertains to things made in modeling programs, though some of the programs work a bit differently than others.

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